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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926. THE SANTA MARIA TIMES CHAPTER XKI like the most wonderful thing in Cuy and who this girl was and Jimmy quickened his step, gal-the world to me. why it was so important for me into sudden action by Dont, she breathed, turning to find lur. 1 told you she faint- ihe sight of her. away fiom him.

"ton have id. and 1 was going to tell you Mai he said softly, looking right to remiiul me of that after he trouble she got in that caused down at her. He felt strangelj jw hat has hupp.ned. her to faint. stirred; the blood raced madl I hen Ill take the right.

You I Jut jouve prevented me from through his veins. krttt stop tne now. I thought 1 doing it. A man likes to feel She turned quickly, startled at thought you cared a little and it that ho can be tnmted. I dont the sound of his voice.

ThCwas wonderful even to think it 1 now what kind of men youro red mounted swiftly to herThut evening, while we were sit- cuistomed to meeting she cheeks, almost as If he had heriting there at the table, 1 heard me. at the words hut I would in the act of thinking about him some men mention a girl's panic ieel that I had been robbed of Good morning, Mr. Rand. she ook his outstm-hed hand. PACE TWO Santa Maria Daily Times Published Every Evening in the Year Excepting Sunday Times Building, Santa Maria, Cdlifo.tilu Entered at the Santa Maria Po-iotfue as Mail of the Second Clai-s SUBSCRIPTION RATES l.W ABI.E AldAM Daily, One Year Jii on Daily, Six Months 3 oo Daily.

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The menace to health overcrowding is now more widely recognized; also the detrimental effect on the vitality and disposition of workers. By the stagger system the same facilities can operate with great comfort and decreased hazard to health and may prove of enormous benefit in passenger transportation in congested areas. -a girl I had been looking for. Mime of my self-respect of I cap-Mary, you dont know how in. in the face of what jou've So I'm just Mr Rand to you, jportant, how nooessary it was to list said, lira he said.

He laughed iflnd her. You accuse me of holding a Yoy forget quickly, gile 6Urveyed him drunken woman in my arms, I jdont you? 'from beneath her lonR black eye- irom which 1 suppose 1 am toj i made a pretense of study- lashes. "And it wa6 so Imjiortant m'tr that I ain the one who got! mg her glove and didn't answer tad necesary, she asked coldly hi drunk. I It was not so long ago, he for you to be lifting her into a "No." she protested, I dont I lent on, 'that it was Jimmy. No, 'taxicab the next night hold in accuse 011 of it.

Im only telling it was Jim. Everybody else ctalls her in your arms on a public 'ou what 1 me Jimmy, but you said ou street? i It makes little difference, he wanted to call me Jim What was He hotlV- You speak," The 'point is you I suppose I could but I'm not going to. Don't" She put up a lro-an'd'he' was'iustauU A "hat 'ou like- csting hand. Von have no right isorry that he had. Aon said 1 lad hurt you.

Per- Two bright spots of color glow uils it is not 'in my power to ed in her cheeks. You are en- h'11'5 you again, but 1 hope I can. titled to vour own opinion, sh' hut what I want to do. I ve give him room beside her. said 1 was iealnns 'een trvmg to get a chance to CHILDS BIRTHRIGHT It is you, he said, that have any rate it as sufficient to kill 'Plain, but I'm not going to.) no right to treat me as you have halevcr regard may have liad You can draw your own inferences roated me.

Mary, he went on, or the whole affair until you razing earnestly at her, you rm Porry 8houldnt 11 me that you believe whoever hurt me cruelly." have said that. Ive hurt vou. told ou lhat lied. I And what about me? I. prob Jim.

she said, and it was the SEA-FOOD FARMING A vast industry resulting from the profitable use of lands under waLc. for shellfish culture is expected to result from the successful culmination of the Conservation Commis- What does it she ably never occured to you Hut I id wearih getting used to time she had called him that might have been hurt, too name, I believe you. Flease for- He leaned toward her eagcily eive me. I too, say things I don't; You mean, he asked. of ine It lnakU sions experiments in the artificial propagation of oysters.

As 'ou eared? (me donhwant tosav. Put you dil1 1)eliexe 5t- AVho roi(j you? She fingered her glove tier Mary. Ive been a fool. make? ,1110 say things I don't want to sav. indue- You said," she put in, that you wanted a chance to explain vously, not daring to rai-e her eyes.

Whoever told me must eon mistaken, she said. still haven't told me anything I "as not mistaken, he shot! dont already know. I saw voa 'ack savagely. He lied lied de-111 Onl tell JOU that 'OU (li I I'lliDrMir'v Who -oc it "ith this woman in vour arm-. Jiiurate.

uao "as it. Til 'him a lifting her into a taxicab, oi "I l155- not to say. He did she checked him with a avc me in front of the m. not want to tell me, but thought I was with Mr. Church.

I ha I lle "as doing so for my own Y.va-ood. (cheapened me, I tell you, and, He laughed. How considerate yet you wonder that I didnt want of the geutlemtn! Could anything the hand as he was about to speak. Let me just say what 1 telling him about you. want to say and then 1 11 go.

1 1 shouldnt say it, but I want to I had'- securing new food sources becomes a more acute problem, a greater proportion of the essential fresh foods must come from the sea. This country has hundreds of thousands of acres of potential, fertile sea farms now lying idle. They be profitably utilized in the producing of great quantities of nutritious and appetizing shellfish. The discovery of this method will redeem a failing industry and increase a very desirable food supply. The conservation of this valuable resource awaits only the application of scientific methods of cultivation.

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I hf had he ou trv to shield That why I was lifting her.ni.u. There only one person that into the cab. Mary, let me tell i ould have told you the one per- tvoti the whole sou besides yourself who saw us. Fainted? There was an edae'it 'va Church, wasn't it? of sarcasm in her voice. I was She flushed at the question, acre for acre, the best truck farms.

According to the com- "You you destroyed something beautiful for me. Mr. Rand. He, winced at her mention of his name. "Perhaps Im talking like' mission there is no more promising investment.

sav-J ha'e mformed a What you called a faint-was described to me as And you believed that? asked, hot in'o made no answer, bevvild-i Of courae it was. If I had the gentleman here I think Id punch his head for the trouble he has taken in my behalf. I I don believe you realize Hat you are saying. She was anaer mounting ducking nervously at her man-lbjs voice "Who told you that? i kerchief. She answered coldly.

Isn't it1 Oh. don't His anger was sufficient that I believed it?" -unning away from him. "Has He let his hands danele limp-j-t occurred to you that Im the; ly over his knees and stared un-i-me who has had all the explain- BOYS CLUBS boys clubs will help solve the crime problem, says William Church Osborn, president of the Childrens Aid Society of New York City. Districts that were hotbeds of crime have been made practically crimeless by establishing boys clubs where the youth may work off their energy and their need for adventure, harmlessly. Here this authority on childrens aid problems has rec- she went on, "and then ognized a vital element of childhood, the need for adven' jhad t0 8Poil ll- Yau were not i i so different from other men, af- ture.

In satisfying this need in legitimate rashion, one ot the greatest factors in juvenile crime is removed, and the boys club is the ideal solution. Here, too, that genius for leadership, present in so many juvenile delinquents, finds a field in which to expand and develop as a social asset, instead of as a social liability. I keep remembering the way we iraet. It was romantic your ing me from being annoyed those men. and fighting for me.jJ0 I remember, he murmured.

"You called me Sir Launcelot, and you were Elaine. seemed so clean and "Spoil It? What do you Its not necessary to ask, Mary, he said, you judged me without a trial, ou didnt give me a chance to explain." jseeingly at the ground. Yes. to do? It seems I got in! i suppose it is." Listless-' wrong for being been with another -irl. How about yourself? Was I 'o take vour presence in Mr.

ehiirch'b company for granted? "Oh, please stop, Jim. You're mly making matters worse. She "What was there to ness was in his voice. Something in his tone caught her. Her hand went to lurthroa' and there was pain in her eyes But he didn't see it.

I know what you're going tr She touched hi knee with her nut her hand on his sleeve, plead- say," he went on hurriedly. "That hand. Im still listening." she ing. encouraged. "Who is this man Church, any He kept staring at the ground.

ay?" he persisted. 'there was nothing to explain. hear me. You've got to hear me. You say you keep re- His mouth twisted queer! as he She turned to face Itin spiare- A.

W. Felts Garage Service AUTO PARTS AND Supplies 106 WEST CHAPEL STREET PHOXE 359 membering the way wc met. Don't you suppose I do? God help me Ive hardly thought of anything else. You were so fresh and beautiful so different from any other girl Id ever known. You Beemed that way right from the start as if the words cost him struggle to utter them.

"Mary, he said, you've hurt me more than you will ever know. They say" I'm stubborn that stub-borness runs in the Rand family Maybe theyre right mavbe I'm from the time I first saw youibeing stubborn. It's costing me sitting there In the church. I something to say this. Something "And then that night at the ells me I shouldnt, and et I restaurant, he continued, the tm.

words tumbling from his lips I was going to txplain this "and you said you were going to whole affair. I was going to tell call me Jim. Mary, that seemedjvou what brought me to Kansas 5y, the look of pain again in her yes. Hes the man Im going to marry, she said softly. It stunned him.

"God, no! hej said after a long silence. She had; urned away, was crying. You mean." he asked, "you mean you I have promised youre engaged?" She nodded. Mary, ho cried, a sob in his'J wiice. it's not true.

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Wl! HAVE MOVED Our Oftice to the New House on South Broadway Phone r.22-IM L. L. PPTNAM. BUILDER PACIFIC READY-CUT HOMES Phone Ahrn 297-19 W.MdnSt its not Duo," he 'It's not Duo, Mary. I love jou.